Academic Computing

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SCSU Academic Computing

 
 
 
WebCT
 
     
 
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Distance learning. Online exams. Electronic grading and content delivery. To truly excel beyond the classroom, sometimes you need more than just the materials you get in the classroom.

Enter WebCT.

WebCT, Inc. is the world's leading provider of e-Learning solutions for higher education and provides Southern CT State University with a premiere tool for creating an online counterpart to the traditional brick and mortar university classroom learning experience.

 
     
  Benefits for the student  
     
 

Just a few of the students who stand to benefit from online delivery of course materials via WebCT include:

  • Nontraditional students with obligations outside of their education (family, kids, etc)
  • Students who commute
  • Physically-challenged students
  • Students who might not otherwise contribute in a public classroom
  • Students who seek increased levels of direct interaction with electronic media
  • Students who work odd hours or nontraditional job

Yet ultimately, as usage of WebCT increases, the more familiar and comfortable all students become with web-based materials, online learning, and electronic file distribution. Truly, WebCT impels both technology and subject learning at the same time.

 
     
  Benefits for the instructor  
     
 

From a faculty/instructor's perspective, WebCT also fosters a more integrated exchange of of electronic materials such as assignments and exam handouts by providing a common online "meeting ground" for any and all course materials and updates. Rather than attempt to email out all files to several dozen disparate student email accounts, a course designed on WebCT can allow the instructor to simply post new course materials to one location and have all students download the file at their own leisure.

Moreover, WebCT also provides the groundwork for timed, online examinations capable of being taken from any computer with an internet connectionn, at any point in time, and from anywhere in the world.

Considerably more flexible than your typical ScanTron examination, right?

 
     
 

 

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updated
6/25/03